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Good for you to make your Mom her favorite cookies!
I'm a week away from 85 and last year I realized that I couldn't do all that mixing and rolling and baking and washing up because when I make cookies it's a cookiepalooza. Usually about 12 different varieties.
One of my granddaughters said she'd like to learn how to bake all my cookies so I wrote every recipe in a nice notebook and gave it to her. She is now the official cookie maker. Last year, she did a credible job. She, like me, will get better year after year. First she needs to get over the shock of how much the ingredients cost. tee-hee.
I taught my son how to make cookies, quick breads, tarts, and pies. I seriously doubt that knowledge, experience, will ever be used, though I hope that I'm wrong.
Never really taught my sons much cooking but:
#1 was a Mr. Mom (his late wife a school teacher) and he ended up learning how to cook for his family.
#2 actually worked in a restaurant putting out 4 star meals.
#3 used to call for the ingredients and recipe every time he wanted to make one of our family meals.
I hate getting food as gifts - just don't waste your efforts making me something I don't need. I have never been all that good at moderation. You give me 12 fabulous cookies I will not eat one a day . . . I will eat them all 5 minutes after I open the box. . That is why I don't drink. I am not a one drink kind of person. So please don't waste your time . . . really.
A gift card, an apple cake, a dozen tea biscuits, 2 muffins, a vat of homemade Vegetable soup and a humongous lemon pound cake, three helium balloons, a corn casserole, ganache-topped brownies, a bottle of ginger ale and a 4 pack of yoghurt, 2 chocolate eclairs, 4 carrot cake cream cheese-frosted cupcakes, 3 scratch off lottery tickets, which if I'm lucky, will be used to pay for my liposuction!!
We ask for gift cards for services we pay for: Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Sirius XM (my subscription splurge), Verizon - can put it towards the Internet bill.
A gift card, an apple cake, a dozen tea biscuits, 2 muffins, a vat of homemade Vegetable soup and a humongous lemon pound cake, three helium balloons, a corn casserole, ganache-topped brownies, a bottle of ginger ale and a 4 pack of yoghurt, 2 chocolate eclairs, 4 carrot cake cream cheese-frosted cupcakes, 3 scratch off lottery tickets, which if I'm lucky, will be used to pay for my liposuction!!
Happy birthday! Hopefully the gift card was for something that you can use.
Japan, After reading all the creative ideas from Posters, I would paste a picture of a washer and dryer on a lovely gift card with monetary gift. Would thank the person and inform the donor you have a bank account for your future home.
Remembered, my son family and I were taking a trip together earlier this year. Went to his bank, deposited a check to his account; one can do this. No questions by the teller was asked of me.
Gifts for myself-can hear Stevie Wonder sing "I just called to say I love you". A telephone call from a friend, dining at a friend's house, with a board or card game afterwards. A walk with a friend, espresso (in a small town on the Olympics Peninsula, WA, seems there's an espresso hut on every corner!) Purchase flowers for myself-Safeway has a bouquet on Fridays for $5 ! Soul food, no calories, lol !
My son was volunteering in a small town at a camp in France. He asked an older lady to teach him what she was preparing. Brought the recipe home, A peasant dish, but so yummy! Potatoes, cream bacon
My daughter-in-law teaches me about plants, herbal remedies she uses. You've got the ideas flowing!
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